Pastoral Resources

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.

The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.